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Clinical observation on the acupuncture treatment in patients with urinary retention after radical hysterectomy

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Objective

To observe the acupuncture therapy effect on the urinary retention after radical: hysterectomy.

Methods Methods

Eighty cases of urinary retention after radical hysterectomy were randomly assigned to: the treatment group and control group according to the random number table method, 40 cases in each group. From the 15th day post operation, the patients in the two groups started to be treated and 7 days as a course with 5 days treatment and 2 days interval. The treatment group applied acupuncture with modalities of common needling on Zusanli (ST36) bilaterally, electroacupuncture on Sanyinjiao (SP6), Shuidao (ST28), and Scalp Reproduction Area bilaterally, moxibustion on Shenque (CV8). The control group applied acupoint injection with vitamin B B12 12, and Sanyinjiao and Zusanli were selected. Take turns on both sides. The courses for the recovery, of bladder function and residual urine volume for those who had voluntary micturition more than 200 mL after the first and second course of treatment were compared between the two groups.

Results

Within 1 course and 2: courses of treatment, the patients with bladder function recovery in the treatment group were 21 (21/40) and 36 (36/40), and those in the control group were 12 (12/40) and 29 (29/40), both with a significant difference (P<0.05). After the first course and second course, residual urine volume for those who had voluntary micturition more than 200 mL in the treatment group was 91.7±17.5 mL and 93.5±15.5 mL, in the control group 102.4±13.7 mL and 102.5±15.7 mL, both with a significant difference (P<0.05).

Conclusions

Combination of acupuncture: modalities was better than acupoint injection for the recovery of bladder function in urinary retention after radical hysterectomy. It would shorten the course of treatment and get a better recovery, decrease urinary retention cases of refractoriness, and extending the treatment could raise the healing rate of urinary retention.

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  1. Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Department, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China

    Wei-min Yi  (易伟民), Ai-zhen Pan  (潘爱珍), Jian-jun Li  (李建军), Dan-feng Luo  (罗丹峰) & Qi-hui Huang  (黄启辉)

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Yi, Wm., Pan, Az., Li, Jj. et al. Clinical observation on the acupuncture treatment in patients with urinary retention after radical hysterectomy. Chin. J. Integr. Med. 17, 860–863 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-011-0800-5

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